Quotes, aphorisms and sentences on ecology, or on the scientific analysis of the natural environment with the study of the vital processes, interactions and adaptations that determine the survival of all forms of life on earth.
Quotes on ecology
- I believe that having the land and not ruining it is the most beautiful form of art you could wish for. (Andy Warhol)
- I am me more my environment and if I don't preserve the latter I don't preserve myself. (José Ortega y Gasset)
- I am increasingly easily disgusted by the fact that we are living in this society committed to making us spend more than we have, or more than we should, for things that we do not really need or want, and which is also killing us slowly as we fills all landfills and makes birds sing less and less. (John Updike)
- We forget that the fruits belong to everyone and that the land belongs to nobody. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
- Pollution, contamination, desolation, are words that would never have been created if man had lived according to nature. (John Muir)
- We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis. (LeeAnn Taylor)
- Cultivating and safeguarding creation is an indication of God given not only at the beginning of history, but to each of us; it is part of his project; it means making the world grow responsibly, transforming it to be a garden, a habitable place for everyone. (Pope francesco)
- Springs and landscapes have a serious flaw: they are free. Love for nature does not provide work for any factory. (Aldous Huxley)
- Man is the craziest species: he venerates an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Without realizing that the Nature that is destroying is that God that is venerating. (Hubert Reeves)
- Nature provides us with a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. (William Ruckelshaus)
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- The problem today is not nuclear energy, but the human heart. (Albert Einstein)
- The ecologist is not the man who says that the river is dirty. The ecologist is the man who cleans the river. (Ross Perot)
- Our biggest challenge in this new century is to adopt an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development. (Kofi Annan)
- I'm not an environmentalist. I am an Earth warrior. (Darryl Cherney)
- The first law of ecology: everything is connected with anything else. The second law of ecology: everything has to end somewhere. The third law of ecology: nature is the only one to know what it is. The fourth law of ecology: free meals are not distributed. (Barry Commoner)
- The trees remain intact if you leave. But you don't, if they leave. (Markku Envall)
- What is more important is that the ecological point of view leads to interpret every social, psychological, natural relationship, in non-hierarchical terms. For ecology, we cannot understand nature if we put ourselves from a hierarchical point of view. Furthermore, it states that diversity and spontaneous development constitute ends in themselves, which must be respected for themselves. (Murray Bookchin)
- Man is the craziest species: he venerates an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Without realizing that the Nature that is destroying is that God that is venerating. (Hubert Reeves)
Aphorisms on ecology
- It is not the man who must fight against a hostile nature, but it is the defenseless nature that has been the victim of humanity for generations. (Jacques Yves Cousteau)
- A plastic package to put in the "microwave oven" is programmed for a duration of maybe six months, a cooking time of two minutes and a stay in the landfill for centuries. (David Wann)
- The continuous pollution of the earth, if uncontrolled, will end up canceling the suitability of this planet as the seat of human life. (Barry Commoner)
- The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a common interest; it's the only thing we all share. (Lady Bird Johnson)
- We never know the value of the water until the well is dry. (Thomas Fuller)
- Any manufactured object is only relatively environmentally friendly. (Daniel Goleman)
- Man was endowed with reason and the power to create, so that he could add his own to what was given to him. But so far he has never acted as a creator, but only as a destroyer.It razes the forests, dries up the rivers, extinguishes the flora and fauna, alters the climate and roars the earth more and more every day. (Anton Chechov)
- They brainwash us so much that when we talk about safeguarding the environment, we automatically think of the savannah and tropical forests. Because there is someone who does not agree that we look too closely at our reality. (Banana Yoshimoto)
- There is now so much air pollution that if it weren't for our lungs we wouldn't have the place to put it. (Robert Orben)
- In the basic kit of the green criticism, the cataclysm is a must and the prophets of decomposition abound, who abuse the alarmist expedient of panic. (Pascal Brunckner)
- Our economic overgrowth collides with the limits of the finiteness of the biosphere. The regenerative capacity of the earth is no longer able to follow the demand: man transforms resources into waste faster than nature is able to transform this waste into new resources. (Serge Latouche)
- The uncompromising, closed and hostile ecology towards everything that is progress, condemns us to a present of terror and renunciations in the name of a future that perhaps will not even be there. (Pascal Brunckner)
- It is not the man who must fight against a hostile nature, but it is the defenseless nature that has been the victim of humanity for generations. (Jacques-Yves Cousteau)
- Abolishing prepackaged ideas is one of the keys to environmental education, since it allows us to reawaken curiosity, pricking our ego on the spot. (Francois Lasserre)
- Your grandchildren will probably find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned a gallon of gasoline to go get a pack of cigarettes! (Paul MacCready)
- There is no social justice without ecological justice. (Serge Latouche)
- The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a common interest; it's the only thing we all share. (Lady Bird Johnson)
- Life in the woods does not solve the ecological problem. It is a phenomenon that contains its opposite. The masses, moving to the woods, would bring you the evils which they believed to escape by abandoning the cities. There is no way out. (Sylvain Tesson)
Phrases on ecology
- Climate change is real. The challenge is compelling. And the longer we wait, the more difficult it will be to solve the problem. (John Kerry)
- If you want to create a sense of nature protection in young people, the most important thing is direct contact with animals. (Konrad Lorenz)
- Thank God men cannot fly and devastate the sky as they did with the earth. (Henry David Thoreau)
- Guarding creation, every man and woman, with a gaze of tenderness and love, is opening the horizon of hope, is opening a glimpse of light in the midst of many clouds, is bringing the warmth of hope! (Pope francesco)
- Climate change, environmental degradation, overpopulation and war threaten the future of our life on Earth. They are the Knights of the Apocalypse created by man. (Jeannette Winterson)
- Since all organisms descend from a common ancestor, it is correct to say that the biosphere as a whole began to think when humanity was born. If the other life forms are the body, we are the mind. Therefore our place in nature, considered from an ethical perspective, is to reflect on creation and protect the planet. (Edward Osborne Wilson)
- The sun, moon and stars would have long since disappeared ... if they had been within the reach of men's predatory hands. (Havelock Ellis)
- We need a new environmental awareness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people. (Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev)
- Modernity has failed. A new humanism must be built otherwise the planet cannot be saved. (Albert Einstein)
- There is a clear link between the protection of nature and the building of a just and equitable social order. There cannot be a renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself. (Pope francesco)
- There are enough resources to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. (Gandhi)
- I believe we have a duty to fight for life on Earth and not only for our benefit, but for all those, human or otherwise, who preceded us and to whom we are linked, as well as those who, if we are wise enough, will arrive later. There is no more urgent or fairer cause than protecting the future of our species. (Carl Sagan)
- The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
- Knowing your planet is a step towards protecting it. (Jacques Yves Cousteau)
- I believe that having the land and not ruining it is the most beautiful form of art you could wish for. (Andy Warhol)
- In our days, almost every so-called improvement that man can manage, such as the construction of houses and the felling of age-old forests and trees, irreversibly perverts the landscape and makes it increasingly tame and banal. (Henry David Thoreau)
- In the name of progress, man is transforming the world into a fetid and poisonous place. It is polluting the air, water, soil, animals ... and himself, to the point that it is legitimate to ask himself whether, in a hundred years, it will still be possible to live on earth. (Erich Fromm)
- When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they will be able to conclude that these 'did not know': make sure we do not go down in history as the generation that knew, but did not care. (Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev)
- Nowadays, the environment can be killed for private profit in America. It is possible to leave the body under everyone's eyes, and nobody calls the police. (Paul Brooks)
